which currently maintains licenses in most of the United States for certified telecommunications services, and supports thousands of users in each state.

As far as I can tell GDI is Ezeir and Starr’s first MLM venture as executives.

Read on for a full review of the Global Domains International MLM opportunity.

Global Domains International Products

Global Domains International market .WS domains, which belong to Western Samoa.

GDI claim they are

are working in cooperation with the government of Western Samoa as the official registry of the .WS top-level domain.

As per an account titled “The Big Trip” on the GDI website, Alan Ezeir and Michael Starr pitched their business idea to the Prime Minister of Samoa in 1999.

With the correct marketing idea behind it, there was no reason why the .WS extension could not be recognized as the major alternative to dot com.

Their original proposal was rejected. A few months later however Michael Starr formed a partnership with the country’s government-owned technology company.

The Nation of Samoa now receives a percentage of all .WS domain sales that GDI generates, and is delighted with our success.

According to the GDI website;

Our product is an incredible $10 per month package that includes your own domain name, hosting accounts, and up to ten email accounts, plus an easy-to-use online web site builder that will allow you to get a professional looking web site on the web as quickly as possible.

This includes GDI affiliate membership and so it appears GDI do not have a retailable product or service.

The Global Domains International Compensation Plan

GDI affiliates pay $10 a month and are paid to recruit other affiliates who do the same.

Joining Global Domains International

Conclusion

When I see a country-specific domain I assume the content of the site I’m visiting in targeted toward that country.

Whereas Western Samoa’s population of just under 200,000 are unlikely to utilize .WS to the extent other countries utilize their local domains, it still doesn’t make much sense to host a general website on a .WS domain.

GDI attempt to navigate this issue by suggesting the “WS in .WS could stand for “website” instead. Trouble is “.website” has been available since early 2014 (~$24.99 a year).

In any event, I’m typically highly suspicious of any website I visit that’s hosted on a country domain but I know has nothing to do with that country. And I can’t be the only one.

From a website perspective, there’s no escaping that .WS is designated to Western Samoa and it makes little sense for anyone else to host a website using a .WS domain.

I presume this is some sort of upsell on the affiliate side, but the GDI website makes no differentiation between basic and premium affiliates. Only the $10 a month option is presented.

Further research reveals GDI premium affiliate membership is $40 a month.

The primary difference between GDI basic and premium affiliate membership seems to be increased commission rates.

This reduces GDI premium affiliate membership to “pay to play”. In MLM commission rates should primarily be determined by sales performance, not how much an affiliate pays each month.

Not sure what GDI lottery is, as there’s no mention of that on the GDI website either.

If GDI is indeed running a lottery for affiliates, one would hope they are appropriately registered with the relevant authority.

And I didn’t miss “leads purchases” either, I just feel GDI has far bigger compliance problems to deal with over selling leads to affiliates.

Getting back to the MLM opportunity, whereas Michael Starr and Alan Ezeir might have gotten away with launching a recruitment heavy MLM company in 2000, today the lack of retail puts GDI dead-center of regulatory cross-hairs.